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What would Jesus tip?
http://www.denverpost.com/lipsher/ci_22699692/lipsher-what-would-jesus-tipObjecting to an 18 percent tip automatically included on her restaurant bill, Pastor Alois Bell crossed it out and wrote: "I give God 10 percent why do you get 18?" Waitress Chelsea Welch posted a photo of the bill on the social media site Reddit, and the story went viral, prompting the restaurant to fire her for the unseemly disclosure.
These types of "stiffers for Christ," unfortunately, are not all that rare.
"The idea that Christians are poor tippers apparently has been whispered in service circles for a long time," The Daily Finance website reported in 2011. "Many waiters try [to] not work Sunday brunch, so as to avoid notoriously stingy churchgoers."
Just here in Summit County, (Colorado) a waitress working last Christmas Day was given a big fat goose egg for a tip on a $114 tab for a family of four. Instead, the patron signed the bill: "Isaiah 41:10."
For those whose rote memorization of the Bible is lacking, that verse roughly translates: "Fear not, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you."
That undoubtedly is of great spiritual comfort to the waitress who did not want to be involved in this story nor have the restaurant identified but it does not help pay the rent.
Equally as classless is leaving gospel tracts instead of tips, including a fake $10 bill with scripture and the phrase: "Some things are better than money."
"By leaving tracts and not tips, that person is saying to their waiter or waitress, 'You are not a person, but rather just a notch on my belt of evangelistic pride," Daniel Readle, a pastor at a Baptist church in Cleveland, wrote on his Christ and Culture blog.
The accounts of "bad-faith" tipping are not merely anecdotal. A 2012 study of 1,638 adults by Cornell University professor Michael Lynn and Benjamin Katz of HCD Research indicated that self-identified Christians tip poorly almost twice as much as Jews and people with no religion....
Read more: Lipsher: What would Jesus tip? - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/lipsher/ci_22699692/lipsher-what-would-jesus-tip#ixzz2Mgn47BzV
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What would Jesus tip? (Original Post)
Democrats_win
Mar 2013
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A table if a "money changer" (business person) was using it for business in the Temple.
Uncle Joe
Mar 2013
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Uncle Joe
(58,459 posts)1. A table if a "money changer" (business person) was using it for business in the Temple.
Thanks for the thread, Democrats_win.
ChazInAz
(2,573 posts)2. I suspect Jesus would be serving.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)3. Jesus would tip over the table and ask . . .
Why the restaurant employees were not being paid a living wage.